Raiders’ Smith shares warning for NFL after signing extension
It is hardly a secret that one purpose quarterback Geno Smith welcomed an offseason commerce from the Seattle Seahawks to the Las Vegas Raiders is that he felt he’d obtain higher monetary ensures from the Raiders than from his earlier employer.
Throughout a latest chat with NFL insider Albert Breer of Sports activities Illustrated, the veteran signal-caller who turns 35 years outdated this coming fall shared a little bit of a warning for the remainder of the league.
“I’m nonetheless getting higher at my age,” Smith stated straight. “And I hate that folks attempt to use my age in opposition to me. I’m stronger and sooner than all these younger guys, and I can throw farther and higher. In order that’s not a difficulty. However I believe they have been attempting to make use of some issues in opposition to me, and I simply needed to get right into a state of affairs the place everybody believed in me and everybody was moving into the identical path.”
In fact, Smith is not a typical NFL beginning quarterback who has been within the league for the reason that second spherical of the 2013 draft. From his rookie season by way of the 2021 marketing campaign, he made simply 34 regular-season begins. He has since earned NFL Comeback Participant of the 12 months Award honors for the 2022 marketing campaign and extra just lately inked a two-year, $85.5M extension that included $66.5M assured with Las Vegas.
Raiders minority proprietor Tom Brady has seemingly taken Smith underneath his wing. Brady was a 42-year-old six-time Tremendous Bowl champion when he signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in March 2020, and he then guided that membership to a Tremendous Bowl title in his first season with the group. Some really feel he ought to’ve gained the Most Useful Participant Award for the 2021 marketing campaign.
Breer talked about that Smith will “get the good thing about working with Tom Brady’s physique coach, Alex Guerrero, who was working with the Raiders final 12 months and has labored intently with a few of their stars, similar to (pass-rusher) Maxx Crosby.”
Maybe the mix of Guerrero and Brady can each get the most effective the soccer world has seen out of Smith and assist Las Vegas’ new QB1 lengthen his profession past the expiration of the extension he signed this spring.
